Is it possibale that all main four classes types of civil en

Is it possibale that all main four classes (types) of civil engineers (i.e. Structral, Transportation, Geotechnical, and Water Resources engineers) are involved in one project? If yes, describe an engineering project in which most types of civil enginners are involved with explanning the role of each of them.

Solution

Yes, many of the highway projects on rivers involve all of them. For example whenever there is a bridge to be constructed each one of them has a job to do.

Structural Engineer will design various RCC components such as piers, abutments and girders or trusses of the bridge for the loading that is provided by the transportation engineer. Also the span, alignment or geometrics of the bridge will be designed by the transportation engineer.

A Geotechnical Engineer has to investigate the river bed for the kind of soil strata that lies below. It is important to find a hard rock bed for stable pier foundations, else they may suggest the caisson or pile foundations if needed.

A water resource engineer will provide the river data, and all the related details, such as the hydraulic forces due to the water current that the structure must resist.